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A Tart Look at the Most-Used Sweetener You’ve Never Heard Of

sugar and artificial sweeteners
by Bill Chameides
May 31, 2013

Today we look at what's in your sweetener.

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Congress’s Affair With Ethanol: Love Gone Wrong?

Corn stover, an agricultural residue, is one feedstock being used to produce cellulosic ethanol. So far, the production of cellulosic ethanol has been far lower than federal mandates, which is creating some problems. (Pat Corkery / NREL)
by Bill Chameides
Mar 28, 2013

The ethanol mandate in gasoline is starting to sting.

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Two Sticky Points with Rice: Arsenic and Climate Change

by Bill Chameides
Nov 1, 2012

The world's No. 2 staple food takes a couple hits from scientists.

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Candy energetics: What filling up your tank on Halloween looks like

Halloween energy
by Bill Chameides
Oct 30, 2012

While the Northeast recovers from superstorm Sandy, how about a sweet diversion?

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The Chemical Marketplace: Popcorn lung – the perils of microwave popcorn return

microwave popcorn
by Bill Chameides
Oct 4, 2012

When it comes to microwave popcorn, best to emulate Bill Clinton: Don’t inhale.

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Drought gives corn farmers that sinking feeling

drought-corn-usda
by Bill Chameides
Sep 14, 2012

The year 2012 was supposed to be a record year for corn production in the United States. Instead we got [...]

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Do organic foods promote better health?

by Bill Chameides
Sep 11, 2012

A fresh look at a new study on the benefits (or lack thereof) of organic food over conventional. In the week [...]

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13 for the 13th: Weird Environmental News on Friday the 13th

by Bill Chameides
Jul 13, 2012

An environmental dimension that lies between the unusual and the downright strange.

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Extreme weather: here, there, everywhere

Wildfires like this one just west of Fort Collins, Colorado, ravaged parts of the West in June while elsewhere heat waves gripped communities and storms caused power outages. What does such extreme weather here and elsewhere mean? (U.S. Forest Service)
by Bill Chameides
Jul 10, 2012

Extreme weather around the globe. A weird statistical fluke or the “new normal"?

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It’s National Donut Day but Otherwise a Bad Week for Sweet Things

by Bill Chameides
Jun 1, 2012

Sweet dreams for America’s once-sweetheart sweeteners aren’t made of these kinds of moves.

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